No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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